Steven and Pawpaw built and installed the solar panels.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
EarthShip EcoTraining
Construction has begun on the new EarthShip here at Terrapin Hollow. From 6/11/2012 through 6/16/2012 we'll be hosting an EarthShip EcoTraining. Learn how to build an earth friendly home out of tires and aluminum cans. Based on the work of the orginal Garbage Warrior, Michael Reynolds, an EarthShip home is a beautiful, low cost, highly sustainable homage to Mother Earth.
Come to the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northern Arkansas for a week and we'll feed you and teach you everything we've learned in the last 7 years on our homestead, Terrapin Hollow. You can check out the home-made wind-mill and solar panels, rain water harvesting, organic gardening, chickens, and even learn to make your own earth friendly laundry detergent and cleaning supplies. We'll have some indoor sleeping space, and/or camping. Bring your grubby clothes so you can get your hands into the dirt while you gain first hand experience in sustainable construction.
Come to the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northern Arkansas for a week and we'll feed you and teach you everything we've learned in the last 7 years on our homestead, Terrapin Hollow. You can check out the home-made wind-mill and solar panels, rain water harvesting, organic gardening, chickens, and even learn to make your own earth friendly laundry detergent and cleaning supplies. We'll have some indoor sleeping space, and/or camping. Bring your grubby clothes so you can get your hands into the dirt while you gain first hand experience in sustainable construction.
Why lend your back to this project? Terrapin Hollow is not just our home, it is a place of peace and renewal for others. As soon as the EarthShip is done, we'll have indoor lodging for up to a dozen people in two attractive cabins. At that time we'll launch our non-profit retreat center. We'll host spiritual events, sustainability workshops, writer's retreats, leadership development training, meetings, etc. There are other blog posts about Terrapin Hollow.
We hope you'll trek our way and have some fun in the sun with us. We're 36 miles from the Folk Music Mecca, Mountain View, AR. Most summer afternoons there are dozens of circles of musicians picking and grinning 'round the courthouse square. Also, we're in very close proximity to Blanchard Caverns and to the Buffalo National Wild and Scenic River. Heck, you could even borrow our canoe... Friend E. Steven Newby and/or Tree Newby on FB. Or reply to this post.
Oh, and as for the food, we'll be providing farm fresh eggs and veggies and store bought lean meats and carbs. I will probably get a keg. And I can cook a variety of dishes for vegetarians and omnivores. If you're vegan I'll need your help making sure you get what you need. The nearest health food store is in Mountain View and is quite small, but there's a Whole Foods in Little Rock.
In love and light,
Tree of Terrapin Hollow
Going Green for Gaia
Here at Terrapin Hollow we're getting ready for a very exciting summer. On Memorial Day Weekend (2012) we're hosting Going Green for Gaia, a fun filled pagan festival with rituals, drum circles, workshops and activities including:
- Make your own earth friendly laundry detergent, cleaning supplies, and cosmetics (with Tree and Brightwing, bring empty spray bottles and empty gallon jugs)
- Tour the home-made windmill and solar panels (with SuperDad)
- Pick blackberries (on your own, bring a bucket)
- Check out the organic garden and say hello to the chickens and dogs (pullets may be available for sale, depending on how many hatch this spring)
- Learn about rain barrels and other rain water harvesting methods (with SuperDad and Talon)
- Hoop dancing: the significance of the circle, oneness, and the spiritual practice of losing yourself to a force distinct from your physical self (with Innergy)
- Renaissance Topic Workshop (with Felicia)
- Free hand massages (get your mind out of the gutter, BellaDonna massages your hand!)
- Other spiritual workshops/topics are available by request. Reply to blog post or write on the event wall inside of FB.
GGG is free and we're taking the first 50 people to sign up. (As of this post we have 30.) For an event invitation, friend Tree Newby on FaceBook, then send a direct message and mention you're interested in GGG. We're open to vendors, but so far most of our favorite vendors have opted to have the weekend off to enjoy themselves.
Friday night is a potluck. The rest of the weekend food is your family/clan/group responsibility. Fire rings will be permitted in group campsites, however we are in a fairly windy valley and extra care will be required. Please don't leave your fire unattended. We'll have both a "home fire" and a ritual fire to cozy up around and play music.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Friday, January 27, 2012
Balance in flow
I haven't blogged in almost a year. First I was too busy with work, next I was burned out from too much work. Then I was recovering from being burned out. Finally I'm well rested and while I am still moderately busy at work, I am cultivating a spaciousness and a graciousness in my professional world. And the desire to be of service to Gaia never rests, only my human hands must rest.
It is finally 2012. It is a year that has a huge charge around it due to many different myths. For me, it will be the year of creating balance in flow. This year I will remain deeply present and coherent through a number of different situations on a daily basis. I will connect to Gaia on a daily basis. I will remain fully present inside my body as well as being connected to those larger versions of self which are larger than my body. I will maintain the physical self as a temple through which, on occasion, the pure love and light of Gaia may pour through me and into the world. Not because I am unique, but because I intend to empower others to, if they choose, have the same blissful opportunity.
No matter how appealing the lofty heights of consciousness, the body must be fed, groomed, excercised, and above all loved and cherished. That is where balance in flow begins.
It is finally 2012. It is a year that has a huge charge around it due to many different myths. For me, it will be the year of creating balance in flow. This year I will remain deeply present and coherent through a number of different situations on a daily basis. I will connect to Gaia on a daily basis. I will remain fully present inside my body as well as being connected to those larger versions of self which are larger than my body. I will maintain the physical self as a temple through which, on occasion, the pure love and light of Gaia may pour through me and into the world. Not because I am unique, but because I intend to empower others to, if they choose, have the same blissful opportunity.
No matter how appealing the lofty heights of consciousness, the body must be fed, groomed, excercised, and above all loved and cherished. That is where balance in flow begins.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Gaia's Words on Sin
Let us define sin in the Spanish/Latin root way meaning "without" as in against the Natural Organizing forces of creation. The first sin was greed and was the shadow side of appreciation for the abundance of creation. The second sin was might, which was used to counter act the fear of lack which was a side effect of the first sin, greed.
The other things labelled as sins are also against creation, and are all side effects of these first two choices. Since humans were designed of the mother (matter) and in the image of God, humans have always had limitless creative potential. Choice has been the only parameter. Free will is a necessary operating condition in order to develop into Godlings - aka realize the fullest potential possible.
The excercise of these first two choices was not dissappointing to your father and I. On the contrary, we were pleased that you were ready to start on your very own learning journey. Over time the number of people and the number of choices made spiraled out of control. Not the control of your father and I, because we granted YOU control upon inception. It was out of control because no one among you could recombine the growing numbers of seperate choosers.
We smiled and laughed at your toddling creations. We felt sorry and kissed your owies when you asked for help. But we could not intervene. The floods, fires, and earthquakes were not the will of your father, nor myself. These were the aggregate of all your choices which produced a dynamic instability, which provided you with feedback about your choices.
These were turbulent times for your father and I but never did we intervene because had we done so, we would have sinned against your own creative promise/potential.
To your perception, the time of humans on earth is a few million years. To our perspective, you are still fairly young. Equivalent to young adults - as a whole species combined. We are pleased with the current state of affairs, even though it pains us to watch you struggle.
You, dear child, have gone forth and multiplied. You have experimented with form, function, and production in order to deepen your understanding of creation and how to create.
You have felt the geometry of being 1, 3, 5, 8, 15, etc, spiraling all the way to 7 billion - so that you could learn new geometries and architectures. And your learning plan has included many series of differentiation and recombination, and both have been agonizing and beautiful to behold.
Again you are in choice. Shall your divine and sacred soul flourish among 2 human bodies, or 200, or 2000? Today you are powerless to choose due to the beauty of all the babies, all the faces. You cry out to us, "Father, who among us is qualified to judge who may live and who may die? Mother, how may we feed ourselves, yet thrive?"
As your cries get louder you have begun to hear your self as one self. The Buddhists have helped create a pathway from suffering to unity. A great many of you have chosen life and are healing your wounds. A great many of you have turned your back on the destructive forces and are creating technologies and communities which honor life and are themselves life giving technologies, living creations.
Some feel very deeply about population control and reduction. Deeply enough to put their creative energies someplace other than procreation. Be mindful, children, of ignoring those in pain in hopes that the pain will lead to a more stable population. Those brave souls who have agreed to die and enter re-combination will not rejoin co-creation and fuel the expansion of consciousness unless their sacrifice is honored and their souls are weapt for.
You just cry and mourn to cleanse and purify the soul matter before it re-combines or else it will be like a cancer to unity.
The other things labelled as sins are also against creation, and are all side effects of these first two choices. Since humans were designed of the mother (matter) and in the image of God, humans have always had limitless creative potential. Choice has been the only parameter. Free will is a necessary operating condition in order to develop into Godlings - aka realize the fullest potential possible.
The excercise of these first two choices was not dissappointing to your father and I. On the contrary, we were pleased that you were ready to start on your very own learning journey. Over time the number of people and the number of choices made spiraled out of control. Not the control of your father and I, because we granted YOU control upon inception. It was out of control because no one among you could recombine the growing numbers of seperate choosers.
We smiled and laughed at your toddling creations. We felt sorry and kissed your owies when you asked for help. But we could not intervene. The floods, fires, and earthquakes were not the will of your father, nor myself. These were the aggregate of all your choices which produced a dynamic instability, which provided you with feedback about your choices.
These were turbulent times for your father and I but never did we intervene because had we done so, we would have sinned against your own creative promise/potential.
To your perception, the time of humans on earth is a few million years. To our perspective, you are still fairly young. Equivalent to young adults - as a whole species combined. We are pleased with the current state of affairs, even though it pains us to watch you struggle.
You, dear child, have gone forth and multiplied. You have experimented with form, function, and production in order to deepen your understanding of creation and how to create.
You have felt the geometry of being 1, 3, 5, 8, 15, etc, spiraling all the way to 7 billion - so that you could learn new geometries and architectures. And your learning plan has included many series of differentiation and recombination, and both have been agonizing and beautiful to behold.
Again you are in choice. Shall your divine and sacred soul flourish among 2 human bodies, or 200, or 2000? Today you are powerless to choose due to the beauty of all the babies, all the faces. You cry out to us, "Father, who among us is qualified to judge who may live and who may die? Mother, how may we feed ourselves, yet thrive?"
As your cries get louder you have begun to hear your self as one self. The Buddhists have helped create a pathway from suffering to unity. A great many of you have chosen life and are healing your wounds. A great many of you have turned your back on the destructive forces and are creating technologies and communities which honor life and are themselves life giving technologies, living creations.
Some feel very deeply about population control and reduction. Deeply enough to put their creative energies someplace other than procreation. Be mindful, children, of ignoring those in pain in hopes that the pain will lead to a more stable population. Those brave souls who have agreed to die and enter re-combination will not rejoin co-creation and fuel the expansion of consciousness unless their sacrifice is honored and their souls are weapt for.
You just cry and mourn to cleanse and purify the soul matter before it re-combines or else it will be like a cancer to unity.
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